"Amour propre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Comme cela m'intrigue," said Katerina Alexeevna. "I must find it out. I suppose it is some affaire d'amour propre; il est tres ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
... a little put out by the number of civil things addressed to my 'amour propre,' which were said to me by those courteous young Gy-ei. In the world I came from, a man would have thought himself aggrieved, treated with irony, 'chaffed' (if so vulgar a slang word may be allowed on the authority of the popular novelists ...
— The Coming Race • Edward Bulwer Lytton |
